this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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[–] CaptainKickass 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] AbidanYre 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah dude, we've all seen The Abyss.

[–] SatouKazuma 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey you. Do you know what "God" means? The people around here, you see, don't really believe in God. Instead, do you know what it is they believe in? It's this place. The Abyss itself. Because the bottom of the Abyss/Netherworld is unknown, and since they're afraid of it, it replaces their god.

Relevant quote from Ozen the Immovable in Made in Abyss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for that unpleasant reminder lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

His hair looks bewildered, he must be one of those sea floor scientists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It actually looks worse when they try to tone his hair down, it's fascinating

[–] esc27 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Go further... hollow earth.

[–] aviationeast 4 points 1 month ago

Trust me you don't want to release what's down there... Those things... They aren't...

[–] solomon42069 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its the alien vents that lead back to the Primary Containment Facility.

[–] LemmyFeed 7 points 1 month ago

Look out for the leviathans.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This could be a truly amazing discovery 💡

[–] apocalypticat 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks like you were downvoted by an anaerobic organism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Aww, come out of there Hulud

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's someone out there who downvotes every single post they read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also casts doubt on markers discovered showing possible life on other planets. We missed a source of oxygen creation on our own planet. Who's to say there aren't other ways that both methane and carbon dioxide are present on other planets.

(I'm certain there's life on other planets. This just makes it less likely that a planets with all the signs is one of those planets)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Methane’s a lot more complex of a molecule to occur on its own though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Last article I read said of the three gasses, methane was the most common to occur without needing life to make it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suddenly realized that for eight years I’d been ignoring this potentially amazing new process, 4,000 metres down on the ocean floor

Makes you wonder what strange things are happening right in front of us, if only we looked with the right tools.

[–] angrystego 1 points 1 month ago

I've been ignoring this process my whole life, I'm afraid.

[–] tacosplease 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's just so sonic the hedgehog won't drown

[–] Shard 9 points 1 month ago

Oh god I can hear the tempo of the panic music picking up...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If this is coming from metals in these rocks forming electrochmical cells, they should've corroded away long time ago. Maybe there's some unknown process that recovers metallic elements back from salts? Maybe some bacteria? Even if, then why? It costs a lot of energy to do this.

[–] A_A 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Usually putting together metal and water you get metal-oxide and hydrogen gas.
m + H~2~O → mO + H~2~

What they discover is a unusual zone where they have both oxygen (dissolved) and metal. So, i guess they have the reverse process :
m~x~O~y~ + energy → (x)m + (y/2)O~2~

They should measure electrical field intensity in the water near the sea floor to evaluate electrical current going through the sea floor from the ocean.

[–] Seasm0ke 1 points 1 month ago

I have zero knowledge related to this but wild speculation, could the core be leaking it into the mantle and up? Iirc its iron nickel and oxygen

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

plastic grocery bags emptying of their last little air bubbles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well done dear Sir/Madam you made me read it, turned out to be interesting. Kudos.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We're in a simulation that has aquarium infrastructure

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Oh no, we've discovered the under gravel filter!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] LesserAbe 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's only one response: We've got to drop the big one. We have got to nuke the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What use is a bomb that doesn’t explode, anyway?

[–] Ghostalmedia 5 points 1 month ago

Andrew Sweetman

Researcher sees bubbles: “Andrew!”

Blub blub

Andrew: “Sweet, man!”